Avoid wrapping so that the strings lie on top of, or cross over one another. Keep turning the tuner in a counter-clockwise manner, until the string has been brought approximately into tune. At this point, your tuning peg should look approximately like the one above(there may be additional string wraps on the peg if you left more slack in the string initially).
Changing Strings on an Acoustic Guitar
By Dan Cross, About.com Guide
Wrapping the Sixth String
On the next (and all remaining) rotation, the wrapped string will coil below the string end protruding from the tuning peg.
Immediately after the wrapped string has passed over the string end, guide the string so that on the next pass, it will wrap under the string end. All subsequent wrap-arounds will also wrap under the string end, each wrap going below the last.
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- Changing Strings on an Acoustic Guitar - Removing the Sixth String
- Replacing the Sixth String
- Pull The Sixth String Toward the Headstock of the Guitar
- Slide Sixth String Through Tuning Peg
- Tightening the Sixth String
- Apply Tension While Wrapping the Sixth String
- Watch While You Wind the Wrapped String
- Wrapping the Sixth String
- Stretch the String To Help Maintain Tuning
- Repeat This Process To Change The Remaining Five Strings
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